Briefings

14 March 2019

The use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is giving rise to new and evolving market misconduct risks that firms need to understand. Julia Hoggett, Director of Market Oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), recently gave a speech to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) highlighting some of these risks. In this briefing we consider insider dealing risk arising when big data constitutes inside information and the manipulation risk arising from AI and machine learning.